What does double-handedly mean?
Double-handedly means Using two people..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
Using two people..
Dinghies are designed to be sailed single-handedly or double-handedly, but some larger cruising dinghies may have room for four or more people on board.
Working double-handedly also conserves your hands in large kneading strokes, for example when you are working on the adductors on the inside of the thigh.
I said I was writing my memoirs, a choppy musical dedicated to counterpoint, without the axes of time and place, collapsing in upon itself because the notes will inevitably run out, returning, elaborating, crisscrossing, double-handedly creating variations upon a theme.
The combination of discontent and economic collapse brought about the revolution. It did not do so simply double-handedly.
NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs.
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Double-handedly means Using two people..
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Dinghies are designed to be sailed single-handedly or double-handedly, but some larger cruising dinghies may have room for four or more people on board.
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